The Power of Subconscious Mind

The power of subconscious mind is becoming more evident as researchers learn more about the brain. Even though it is consciousness that we are aware of, it is the unconscious mind operating beyond our awareness that really runs the show.

People over six years old operate on 'auto-pilot' or from unconscious levels of mind at least 95% of the time. Younger children rarely use conscious processes at all. Their brain wave patterns are primarily associated with hypnosis and pre-sleep, making them very suggestible to programming based on what they are taught and what they observe. Unless consciously noticed and changed, these programs control their beliefs and most of their actions for the rest of their lives.

Research suggests that the power of subconscious mind is faster and more unlimited than the conscious mind.

Based on sensory input studies, it is estimated that the brain receives 11 bits of information per second, mostly through the retinas. The neural networks can handle many processes at a time.

Your unconscious mind is so astute that it knows when something is going to happen a half-second before your conscious mind makes you aware of it.

The power of your subconscious is not usually under the control of the conscious mind. This bio-super computer operates without conscious awareness and has different jobs. These parts of your brain may work together or they can be at odds with each other.

How the Unconscious Mind Works

Much of what is known about the workings of the unconscious mind have been learned in recent years. Research shows that it makes up over 90% of the brain and it is on the job 24/7. It has two main concerns, safety and pleasure. All your automatic body processes and learned behaviors come under the power of subconscious mind. The region above the brain stem controls many of these processes.

Incoming information from the outside world and the conscious mind is filtered through these regions, where it is associated with stored patterns of past experiences and programmed beliefs. One important filtering region is the amygdala.

Learned material, patterns and habits are stored in long-term memory and acted upon by the subconscious. Your unconscious mind has an enormous capacity for storage. I remember having a dream in which I smelled something I had not smelled in perhaps 20 years. I was impressed because the scent was exactly the same as it was back then, even though I had forgotten about it and cannot recollect it now.

What is a little scary is that every time you call up a memory, it changes just a little when it goes back into storage. Sometimes you even create false memories.

Behaviors are also memorized learned patterns. When you yell at someone before you can stop yourself, you default to learned patterns of behavior. The same is true when your mouth waters at the sight of your favorite ice cream.

You learn how to walk and eat and talk with your conscious mind. Once behaviors are automatic, they come under the power of subconscious mind, unless you choose to control them consciously. When you daydream while driving a familiar route, your unconscious mind is doing the driving. Isn't it amazing how you stay on the road heading in the right direction with no recollection of how you got there?

Because the process of learning is linked with safety and survival, your subconscious rewards it with a dose of pleasurable chemicals so you repeat the behavior. Indulging in life's pleasures, especially when related to survival, such as eating and sex, are also rewarded biochemically. This is often a double-edged sword when trying to change undesirable programming, which your SCM keeps rewarding you for repeating.

Emotional responses are under the power of subconscious mind whether you react with tears, laughter, anger or fear. It takes you through a whole range of emotions and feelings based on your thoughts and what is triggering you in the moment.

As part of the unconscious mind, the amygdala is in charge of processing emotionally charged experiences and where and how to store them as memories.

Your subconscious mind runs programs much like a computer. The powers of subconscious mind do not include thinking or making moral judgments. It does what it has been taught and holds beliefs you have about yourself and the world to be true. It directs your thoughts and actions according to its programming as a means of keeping you safe and happy. This holds true even if you consciously realize something you choose to think or do is not for your immediate or ultimate good.

This mind does not argue or think. It has no logic. It takes the information you give it, and once received, accepts it as truth whether it is real or imagined. It acts like an obedient servant. It focuses on what you pay attention to, filtering out irrelevant sensory input.

Your SCM projects your beliefs. Because it reasons from specific to general, your SCM works to make what you think and focus on a reality for you. For example, if you believe yourself to be kind, it will make you aware of opportunities to practice kindness. When you drive a gray car, you notice more gray cars than when you drove a red one. They seem to be everywhere!

Through the power of subconscious mind, your beliefs are projected into the quantum field as electromagnetic thought waves. Thought is energy, just like everything else. As the Law of Attraction says, the energy of your thoughts and beliefs draws to you circumstances and people matching their vibrational qualities. And so it is true that like attracts like. If you want to change what you are attracting, change your programming.

The power of subconscious mind can heal you.

In reality, your brain directs body processes responsible for repair and regeneration continuously, so long as you keep stress at bay. Wounds are healed, cells are renewed, infections are resolved.

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